These paintings, Between Heaven and Earth, are an attempt to reveal the beauty of the natural world and to reach beyond it to an ideal one, a heavenly one that lies in parallel, on the periphery of our vision.

While painting his latest beautiful, painterly works, Stephen Allwood says he was thinking of Caravaggio’s most famous painting, Narcissus.

Blair challenges structure delivering a dynamic abstraction that might be described as “outside the current”. The exhibition title refers to the scientific term for fluids going in different directions and is also a reference to the way her pigments, oil and acrylic resist each other.